American Indemnity Co. v. Boatner

LANE, Justice.

C. D. Boatner was, on the 10th day of April, 1924, an employee of the Sugarland Industries, which held a policy of compensation insurance issued by American Indemnity Company. On said date Boat-ner, while in the course of his employment, suffered an injury which resulted in a hernia. On July 19, 1933, C. D. Boatner brought suit in the district court of Fort Bend county against the American Indemnity Company to recover for his injury.

He alleged the facts above stated, and that he had been directed by his employer to its doctors, who performed an operation in an effort to cure his…